Morality, Space, and the Power of Wind‐Energy Landscapes
Morality, Space, and the Power of Wind‐Energy Landscapes
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道德、空间和风能景观的力量
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2000
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M. Pasqualetti
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作者：
M. Pasqualetti
我们大多数人都不知道或不关心我们的电从何而来。然而，随着我们转向风能，我们的态度正在发生变化，风能现在是世界上增长最快的可再生能源。由于我们无法提取和运输风能的原始能源，因此要获得风能的许多环境效益，就需要我们在风能出现的任何地方科普其发展的景观存在。有时这会影响开放空间的价值，有时可能会接近细分。正是风能的固定性和可见性使得它的存在不可避免。在这方面，它不能隐藏在地下，储存在坦克中，或通过火车移动。它是一种能源，提醒我们，我们的电力来自某处。我们越希望利用风能，我们就越不能避免我们对能源的需求所带来的责任。这种必要的讨价还价，首先在加州棕榈泉附近很明显，现在正在开发风力发电的任何地方都在经历。
Most of us have not known—or cared—where our electricity comes from. Our attitude is changing, however, as we turn toward wind energy, now the fastest‐growing renewable energy resource in the world. Because we cannot extract and transport the raw energy of the wind, reaping its many environmental benefits requires that we cope with the landscape presence of its development wherever it occurs. Sometimes this interferes with the value of open space, and sometimes it may be close to subdivisions. It is the immobility and very visibility of wind power that makes its presence unavoidable. In that regard it cannot be hidden underground, stored in tanks, or moved by trains. It is an energy resource that reminds us that our electricity comes from somewhere. The more we wish to tap the power of the wind, the less we will be able to avoid the responsibilities that our demand for energy brings. This necessary bargain, first evident near Palm Springs, California, is now being experienced wherever wind power is being developed.